Showing papers on "Empire published in 1985"

Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West

Abstract: Donald Worster examines the development history of the American West, identifying the elite of technology and wealth who have controlled its most essential resource: water.

The Great Arch: English State Formation As Cultural Revolution

Abstract: "A remarkably centralized country" - state formation in Medieval England "This realm of England is an Empire" - the revolution of the 1530s an elect nation - the Elizabethan consolidation mortall God enthroned - one bourgeois revolution (of many) from theatre to machine - "old curruption" "the working class question" - "Society" and society "There is, above all, an agency".

The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America

Abstract: Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but also for allegiances and even souls. In the three-sided struggle for empire, the English and French colonists were locked in heated competition for native allies and religious converts. Axtell sharply contrasts the English efforts to "civilize" the Indians with the French willingness to accept native lifestyles, and reveals why the struggle for control over the continent became a fascinating contest of cultures between shrewd opponents lasting nearly 150 years.

Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire

Abstract: Hans Eysenck was one of the best-known research psychologists of the twentieth century. Respected as a prolific author, he was unafraid to address controversial topics. In Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, he places himself at the center of the debate on psychoanalytic theory, challenging the state of Freudian theory and modern-day psychoanalytic practice and questioning the premises on which psychoanalysis is based. In so doing, Eysenck illustrates the shortcomings of both psychoanalysis as a method of curing neurotic and psychotic behaviors, and of the theory of dreams and their interpretation. He also analyzes Freud's influence on anthropology and his alleged contributions to science.While books about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis abound, most have been written by followers and acolytes and are therefore uncritical, unaware of alternative theories, or written as weapons in a war of propaganda. Others are long and highly technical, and therefore valuable only to students and professionals. Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, on the other hand, was written with the non-professional in mind, and is for those who wish to know what modern scholarship has discovered about the truth or falsity of Freudian doctrines.Graced with an incisive new preface by Sybil Eysenck exploring her husband's motivation for writing the book, Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire is an authoritative and convincing work that exposes the underlying contradictions in Freudian theory, as well as the limitations and errors of psychoanalysis.

The German Empire, 1871-1918

Abstract: The configuration of 1871 - the agrarian revolution, the industrial revolution and the founding of the state towards an industrial state the ruling system and politics a balance sheet.

Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy

Abstract: The Indian subcontinent - land, people, power the consolidation of dominion - illusion and reality the dilemmas of dominion war and the search for a new order a critical decade - India - empire or nation? India in the 1940s - a great divide? India's democratic experience.

"On the Threshold of Woman's Era": Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory

Abstract: If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself.... Not the opportunity of discovering new worlds, but that of filling this old world with fairer and higher aims than the greed of gold and the lust of power, is hers. Through weary, wasting years men have destroyed, dashed in pieces, and overthrown, but to-day we stand on the threshold of woman's era, and woman's work is grandly constructive. In her hand are possibilities whose use or abuse must tell upon the political life of the nation, and send their influence for good or evil across the track of unborn ages. -FRANCES E. W. HARPER, "Woman's Political Future"

The Hellenistic Age from the battle of Ipsos to the death of Kleopatra VII

Abstract: Volume Editor's Introduction Abbreviations Symbols 1 From Ipsos to Korupedion (301-281) 2 The Seleucid Kingdom 3 The Greeks in Baktria and India 4 Macedon and the Greeks of Europe 5 Pergamon 6 Ptolemaic Egypt: kingdom and empire Glossary Appendixes Indexes

The empire strikes back: the evolution of the Eastern bloc from a Soviet asset to a Soviet liability

Abstract: The structure of the Soviet bloc would appear to be ideal for the maximization of Soviet domestic and foreign interests. The actual ledger of Soviet gains and losses from control over Eastern Europe, however, reveals a different picture. Over the postwar period Eastern European contributions to Soviet national security, economic growth, and domestic stability have declined. This decline in the value of empire to the Soviets is a function of three factors. The first is growing regime-society tensions in Eastern Europe as a result of East Europe's dependence on the Soviet Union and the derivative structures of its Stalinist political economies. The second is the Soviet role within the bloc as a political and economic monopoly and monopsony. And the third is the unexpected costs, both to the Soviet Union and to Eastern Europe, that attended the bloc's reunion in the early 1970s with a global capitalist system in crisis.

The Japanese Colonial Empire:1895-1945

Abstract: These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of colonialism as a global phenomenon. Contributors are Ching-chih Chen. Edward I-te Chen, Bruce Cumings, Peter Duus, Lewis H. Gann, Samuel Pao-San Ho, Marius B. Jansen, Mizoguchi Toshiyuki, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie, Michael E. Robinson, E. Patricia Tsurumi. Yamada Sabur?, Yamamoto Y?zo?.

The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire

Abstract: Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals, from their emergence in the fourth century to their decline in the fifteenth century, just prior to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. These sophisticated medical facilities, he concludes, are the true ancestors of modern hospitals. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.

Plunder and tribute in the carolingian empire

Abstract: In 882 the Emperor Charles III was forced to break off his siege of the Norsemen's camp at Asselt and make peace with them. One of their leaders, Gottfried, got a Carolingian wife and the benefices in Frisia formerly held by Rorich; the other, Siegfried, got a large sum in gold and silver. Commenting on these events, the Mainz cleric who composed this section of the Annals of Fulda wrote:and what was still more of a crime, he did not blush to pay tribute, against the custom of his ancestors, the kings of the Franks, and following the advice of evil men, to a man from whom he ought to have exacted tribute and hostages.

Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgments I The Medieval Ethno-Religious Frontier II Kievan Rus' and the Steppe III The Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde IV The Mongol Administration of Russia V The Mongol Role in Russian Politics VI The Russian "Theory" of Mongol Rule VII Economic and Demographic Consequences VIII The Mongols and the Muscovite Autocracy IX The Mongols and Russian Society X Cultural Life XI Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Maritime Maroons: "Grand Marronage" from the Danish West Indies

Abstract: T THE islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. Jan-now the Virgin Islands of the United States-were Denmark's outpost of empire in the Caribbean. Denmark was a late entrant in the seventeenthcentury scramble for West Indian colonies. Its colonization of St. Thomas, beginning in i 67i, and of St. Jan in I 7i8, occurred at a time when England, France, and Holland had long since broken, de facto and de jure, Spain's monopoly in the hemisphere and were consolidating their New World gains. Denmark's choice was limited in the extreme; its acquisition of St. Thomas and St. Jan was determined not by choice but by lack of feasible alternatives. St. Croix, bought from France in I 7 3 3, was the last of the Lesser Antilles to come under European rule, and the purchase has the dubious distinction of bringing to a close the first century of non-Hispanic colonization in the Caribbean. The acquisition completed Denmark's territorial empire in the New World. Apart from two British occupations during the Napoleonic Wars, in i 8o i and again from i 807 to i8I5, the islands remained in Denmark's possession until I 9I7, when they were sold to the United States.'

British‐Based Investment Groups Before 1914*

Abstract: i zation in the nineteenth century has cast the British role in a poor light. The British had shown little enthusiasm for joint-stock organization for much of the century or for the credit-mobilier type of financing industrial development. The multi-national corporation was, it appears, largely an American phenomenon, with only late and limited indigenous development in Britain. The multi-divisional corporation was again entirely a creation of American managerial creativity. The trust was, as we have long known, an outcome of German dynamism. 1 Even the British banking scene continued to be dominated by family dynasties, while overseas investment in business enterprise, both colonial and foreign, was more restrained than historians had long thought.2 The consequence appears to be that the small-to-middling business remained the most characteristic form of enterprise, even in the "leading sectors", for longer than the early writers led us to suppose. In a wide range of manufacturing and service industries the characteristic structure featured a multiplicity of diverse specialists whose leadership was addicted to family and (if possible) dynastic control.3 The evidence for this situation has been extensively researched and is quite convincing. However, so far as the British position in the world economy is concerned, some misgivings need to be recorded. Could the world's largest and most dispersed empire, created-so we are persuaded-primarily from economic motives,4 be entirely sustained in all its diverse activities by traditional entrepreneurial and family enterprise? Was there nowhere any increase in scale commensurate with the mighty growth of empire and world markets? Most research has been focused on manufacturing industry, yet the traditional British genius was said to be mercantile rather than manufacturing, a sector that has attracted relatively little attention or money for research, and it would

The creation of the Roman frontier

Abstract: Stephen L Dyson finds in the experience of the Republic the origins of Roman frontier policy and methods of border control as practiced under the Empire Focusing on the western provinces during the Republic, he demonstrates the ways in which Roman society, like that of the United States, was shaped by its own frontierOriginally published in 1985The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

The social history of Rome

Abstract: This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.

Rural Marketing in China: Repression and Revival

Abstract: Rural markets and peasant marketing did not fare well during the Maoist era, which extended from well before the consolidation of communist power in China to the triumphal return of Deng Xiaoping as the central political figure in 1977. Maoist radicals, who in broad perspective may be said to have held the political initiative throughout the era, can be fairly characterized as having an anti-market mentality. While this set of attitudes derives in part from Marxism, it is also rooted in the ideological preconceptions of late-imperial Confucian bureaucrats. The Maoist elite in the People's Republic and the traditional bureaucratic elite of the late empire were equally unhappy with market exchange, and both showed a preference for redistribution.

End of Empire

Abstract: Books on the Empire have a disconcerting habit: they dart about. Here we are in Singapore to learn about the surrender in 1942, then over to India for its most significant political consequences, then to the Middle East where the Empire is faring better, then south into Africa, whose men are by now fighting in Burma. It is not always easy to follow, even on the page, especially when the Government in London changes in the midst of several complicated developments in the colonies. A television series, competing always against a washing machine flood, a crying baby or an unexpected phone call, would be ill-advised to adopt the same method.